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students
Zeinab hosseini-doust
Zeinab Hosseini-Doust is one of the
Department of Chemical Engineering's
newest researchers, and she knows she's
arrived at just the right time.
Hosseini-Doust came to McMaster
in July 2016, fresh from a fellowship
at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. Her research
focuses, in part, on bacteriophages -
viruses that infect bacteria.
Her goal is to tease out the many uses
of bacteriophages. Understand how
they destroy certain bacteria species, for
example, and you have the next generation of antibiotics. Combine them with
synthetic material and you have new
devices for environmental monitoring,
or data storage, or diagnostics imaging
- assembled, she explains, "from the
bottom up."
"Once you start combining biological agents with synthetic material, you
have a lot of function you didn't have
before."
Hosseini-Doust is excited by the idea
of merging engineering with health sciences. "Moving into the new building
is going to help us," she says. "We'll be
moving into dedicated space designed
for the type of work we do."
bIOlOgICAl AgENTS WITh
SyNThETIC MATErIAl, yOu hAVE A
lOT OF FuNCTION yOu DIDN'T
hAVE bEFOrE.
Zeinab Hossein Doust
IF yOu COulD IMPlANT Or INjECT SOMEThINg AT ThE SITE, ThEN WhEN yOu
ExPErIENCE ThE PAIN, yOu COulD PuT A MAgNET uP TO IT, Or AN ulTrASOuND,
FOr A MINuTE Or TWO AND rElEASE ThE Drug rIghT AT ThAT SITE.
Todd Hoare, P.Eng.
ONCE yOu STArT COMbININg
todd hoare, p.enG.
An arthritic person pops a pill to relieve
his joint pain. He only needs it for his
bad knees, or his aching lower back,
but lacking better direction, the drug
spreads throughout the body.
A cancer patient sits in chemotherapy treatments, but instead of the chemo
drugs targeting her cancer cells, they
batter the healthy ones too, making the
patient feel sick and weak.
These are scenarios Chemical Engineer Todd Hoare hopes will one day be
a distant memory. The associate professor is focused on methods to target
drug delivery, largely with hydrogels.
Such a prospect would lessen side effects
from, for example, punishing cancer
treatments. And it could lessen drug
tolerance.
"If you could implant or inject
something at the site, then when you
experience the pain, you could put a
magnet up to it, or an ultrasound, for a
minute or two and release the drug right
at that site," Hoare says.
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